Food-- your miracle medicine : how food can prevent and cure over 100 symptoms and problems /

Explains the role of nutritional therapy in preventing or curing heart disease, hypertension, strokes, diarrhea, constipation, flatulence, lactose intolerance, colic, irritable bowel syndrome, ulcers, kidney stones, cancer, headache, asthma, arthritis, osteoporosis, diabetes, and gallstones, among o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Carper, Jean (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : HarperCollins Publishers, [1993]
Edition:First edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • Everybody's cardiovascular food cures
  • Diet remedies for digestive troubles
  • A diet to save you from cancer
  • Foods that make you feel better and smarter
  • Foods to zap common infections and breathing problems
  • Food remedies for joint and bone problems
  • The right diets for reproductive functions
  • Diabetes and other food connections.
  • The miracle of food
  • Three theories of food's healing powers
  • What to eat to avoid heart trouble
  • The ultimate anti-cholesterol diet
  • Ten foods that fight blood clots
  • Diet remedies for high blood pressure
  • Nature's strong medicines against strokes
  • Anticonstipation foods : Folk wisdom updated
  • Diarrhea and diet : Modern myths, ancient truths
  • What to eat for upset stomach
  • Foolproof remedies for gas
  • The milk miseries : Lactose intolerance
  • Eating your way out of heartburn
  • Colic : A dietary cry of protest
  • New food suspects in spastic colon
  • Bran for diverticular disease
  • Ulcers : Goodbye, milk : hello, hot stuff
  • Defeating gallstones with diet
  • Kidney stones : Diet, the "drug of choice"
  • Best foods to block, intercept and stifle cancer
  • Diet antidotes to breast cancer
  • Colon cancer : Fighting off fate and bad genes with diet
  • Is lung cancer a "vegetable deficiency"?
  • Pancreatic cancer : An orange a day?
  • Stomach cancer : The salad solution
  • Other cancers : Diet antidotes
  • Stay-awake, high-alert, brainpower foods
  • Foods to lift your mood
  • Diet extinguishers for anxiety and stress
  • Surprising facts about diet and behavior
  • Headaches : Food triggers and cures
  • Foods that boost immunity, ward off infections
  • Foods for colds, flu, bronchitis, sinus problems, hay fever
  • Fighting asthma with onions, peppers and fish
  • Food antidotes for bladder infections
  • A starvation diet for the herpes virus
  • Rheumatoid arthritis : Breakthrough diets
  • Surprising new anti-osteoporosis foods
  • Sex, hormones, fertility and food
  • Diet cures for menstrual problems
  • Diabetes : Food antidotes and remedies
  • Other food connections you should know about
  • How to use drugs in foods to stay healthy
  • Disease-fighting powers in sixty common foods
  • Appendix : Foods with the most pharmacological vitamins, minerals, and oils.